Re: Footnotes

[Dave Hartley]

On 10/29/2017 5:41 PM, Dave Hartley wrote:

I'm currently typesetting some music for our school choir, SATB with a piano part and a small percussion part. I tried to get some additional directions to the performers inserted as footnotes, but I don't seem to be able to get the footnotes in \markup attached to notes working at all.

MWE:

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\version "2.18.2"

\markup { The \auto-footnote footnote "Here it is" works here. }

{c '^\markup { I want a \auto-footnote footnote "Does this work?" here } }

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The annoying thing is that it is almost working, as there is a gap left for the footnote marker, but both it and the actual footnote are just not there.

Reading the manual (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/creating-footnotes) I can see that only musical expressions (which attached markup is definitely not) and stand-alone text (again, attached markup isn't that either).

My question: is there any way to place a footnote at the bottom of a page from markup attached to a note? I've "made do" with using simple markup to give the performance instructions, but I'd like to be able to do this sort of thing in the future. Any guidance would be most appreciated.

On 30 October 2017 at 12:26, Ben <address@hidden> wrote:

Maybe these links could help you?

http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/footnotes-should-work-on-markup-attached-to-a-note-td169259.html
http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/footnotes-in-markup-attached-to-notes-not-working-td169260.html

IIRC auto-footnote is really only used for markup outside of music expressions etc.

Thanks Ben, those links confirm what I already suspected, that footnotes in markup attached to notes do not work. 

On 30 October 2017 at 12:33, Ben <address@hidden> wrote:

Something like this?
(see attached)

\version "2.19.80"
\relative c''\footnote #'(1 . 2) "Here is your footnote" a 

Not really, I want to be able to supply some performance hints to the markup without having that line from the note. 

I have exactly the same issue using the manual \footnote form:

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\version "2.18.2"

\markup { The footnote \footnote "*" "* Here it is" works here. }

{c '^\markup { I want a footnote \footnote \super + "+ Does this work?" here } }

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

So my question now is: is there some way to place markup at the bottom of the current page? That is, can I "fake" a footnote by putting the footnote mark in the markup attached to the note, and simply place the footnote manually at the bottom of the page?

Cheers

Dave

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